FO: Green Tea

After knitting through a few sizing hiccups, making modifications, and pushing through all that delicious stockinette, I’m pleased with this tee! This was a learning experience as usual, and while I like the finished piece, there is room for improvement next time.

This sweater pattern had its share of frustrations, mainly in the generous proportions as I wrote about here. After knitting and ripping out the yoke and sleeves, I modified the sleeves and bust to fit my body. You can see the detail of these mods on my Ravelry page, but the gist is that I created a customized size somewhere between 34 and 36. Then I jumped back on the pattern bandwagon and knit it straight down to the hem without any shaping. I tried it on multiple times and thought things were going great. Then I wore the tee all day and looked at these photos and realized I didn’t need as much positive ease in the body as I thought I would to be comfortable. Oh well, knit and learn, right?!

I love how the leafy lace yoke turned out. The combination of pretty lace and casual fit is what initially drew me to the pattern, and I’m happy to say I still like it after all the work and changes I made!

The yarn was very nice to work with, as far as cotton blends go. It’s soft, has a decent amount of stretch, and the wool content will hopefully help the tee retain its shape. If I had one gripe, it’s that the yarn could be a bit splitty at times, but not so much that it was a headache to work with. I’d knit with it again, although as I’m writing this it occurs to me that it feels a lot like Lion Brand Cotton Ease, which is a heckuva lot cheaper (no wool, though). Interesting.

Now that I’ve finished up a fairly large prject, I’m all set to tackle my knitting to-do list! I’ve already cast on for Windschief, and it is coming along very quickly. It’s the perfect antedote to a project that was on my needles for about 2 months.

I love your mods. I’ve kept an eye on this design as well, but was put off by all the troubles the knitters seemed to be having with it. I guess I’ll go through your mods once again before I decide to start knitting this.

You look fantastic in this green, and the pattern at the neckline is really nice – just enough to make the tee special.
PB has the prettiest blue eyes, and I’m envious of your asparagus spear!
Happy Mother’s Day weekend! t.

I am rather late commenting on this (finally got a computer again so catching up on a million blog posts on my reader). just wanted to say I think the colour really suits you and I love the yoke detailing, very nice. Good for you for perservering and making the mods needed to make it fit you. Well Done

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